BeeCyclingJodi Picolt speaking at the Hay Festival: Having books banned in US schools is "not a badge of honour" and writers “whose livelihood is writing for middle grade and young adult readers. They are suffering greatly”
On one of her banned books:
"She said the reason Nineteen Minutes, which is about a US school shooting, was banned, was not because of the shooting scenes: “They have no problem with that. The problem is that on page 313, I use the term ‘erection’.”
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